Wallpaper



NOV. 5, 1940. I B, c; KELLQGG I 2,220,571

WALLPAPER Filed Nov. 1, 1954 Patented Nov. 5, 1940 UNITED STATES PATENTOFFICE 2 Claims;

This invention is related to inserts for catalogs or specimen books madeup of wallpaper in miniature sheets that are produced in thecharacteristic inks employed in wall paper work. It has particularreference to the insert illustrated, described and claimed in LettersPatent of the United States, No. A1,368,043, dated February 8,

1921, of Nicholas P. Moses. y

The insert of the Moses patent is produced by printing simultaneouslyupon a single sheet or web both 'the lling or side wall design and thefrieze or border to match the same. This is done so that the frie'ze orborder is grouped or assembled with the wall design, that the two may beconveniently and readily displayed together asA a unitary assemblage,and that the effect of the two in their relation to each other may beimmediately discernible. In practicing vthe Moses invention the insertsare produced in the natural colors and by the utilization of the inksand pigments characteristic of wall paper production, as distinguishedfrom lithographed sheets or those produced by multi-colored processeswhich employ oil inks. The value of the Moses invention resides in theability of the observer of the inserts, whether the latter are bound incatalogs or specimen books or are individually inspected, to View thecolorings or shade effects that are presented in the actual sizedpapers, together with the grouping of the frieze and the filling or walldesigns, as they appear in the full sized papers when hung on a wall.

It has been found that in producing the Moses insert according to themanner of printing above described the desired shade effects by way ofcontrast between the frieze or border and the filling or wall design arenot attainable. The true presentation of these shade effects as found inthe full-sized stock of the border and wall is not reflected by theinserts, and this results in customer dissatisfaction when purchases arebased on inspection of the inserts by the customer as distinguished frominspection of the stock paper itself.

der design with several wall designs it is necessary, when the Mosesinvention is followed, that such border design shall be cut on each ofthe rolls having the differing wall design, thus increasing the cost ofproduction and maintenance of the printing rolls, as well as the numberof rolls required for the various designs.

The present invention aims to overcome the conditions above recited, andto provide miniature Wall paper inserts in which the frieze or border,and the filling or Wall, as the two are related to each other, moretruly will present the colors and shade effects of the stock wall paperthan heretofore has been possible.

Furthermore, the invention seeks to effect economies in the number ofprinting rolls required and the cost of maintenance thereof, and toprovide greater latitude in the production of miniature inserts than ispossible in following the prior l practices of the art.

With these general objects in View the invention consists in the novelform of wall paper hereinafter fully described, illustrated in theaccompanying drawing, and finally pointed out in the appended claims.

In the drawing,

Fig. 1 is an elevation of a printing roll constructed and cut for layingthe design of the filll ing or side wall of the wall paper to beprinted;

Fig. 2 is a plan view of a miniature sheet of wall 30 paper having thedesign of the filling or side wall printed thereon in accordance withthe use of the roll illustrated in Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is an elevation of a printing roll constructed and cut for layingthe design of the frieze or border of the wall paper to be printed; and

Fig. 4 is a plan view of the miniature sheetl illustrated in Fig. 2after the same has been printed by the roll of Fig. 3, and illustratesthe miniature sheet in its final form.

Fig. 5 is a fragmentary plan view, on an enlarged scale, of the wallpaper sheet illustrated in Fig. 4, the dotted lines at the juncture ofthe frieze or border with the filling or side wall illustrating theoverlapping relation of the frieze or border with the adjacent edges ofthe filling or side wall.

Referring now in detail to the accompanying drawing, it will beunderstood that the conventional wall paper printing machinery nowemployed for the production of wall paper is utilized in producing theminiature sheets of the present invention, so that it is not necessaryto illustrate such machinery. It is understood also that while thedisclosure of the present invention indicates the completed miniaturesheet, the printing thereof is effected by printing the usual web ofpaper that passes through the printing machine, the web subsequentlybeing severed at the desired intervals for giving the miniature sheetsthe proper dimension both as to length and width, that is required toadapt the same as inserts for catalogs or specimen books.

The printing roll for laying the design of the filling or side wall isdesignated by the numeral I0. The design II of the pattern of thefilling or side wall preferably is included in a series of zones, asindicated in Fig. 1, each zone duplicating the design of the pattern.However, the roll may include but one zone if` desired, it being bettereconoiny to cut upon the roll a plurality of zones to the extent thatthe length of the roll will permit.

When a plurality of-zones ofthe pattern are embodied in a single rollthey are separated by space bands I2. Thus, when the designs II are laidupon the web I3 of the paper to be printed the imprints I4 of thesedesigns are separated by spaces I5, which spaces later receive thedesigns of the border to be associated with the design of the filling orside wall.

In Fig.- 3 is illustrated the printing roll for laying the border. Thisroll isV designated by the numeral I6 and the border design I I is outthereon in an appropriate way in a manner similar to the cutting of theside wall design II of the roll I0. Obviously, the dimension of theborder design Il is less than the dimension of the filling or side walldesign. Where two or more of the border designs II are included on theprinting roll they are separated by space bands I8, the rolls I Il andI6 being entirely blank as to their respective space bands I2 and I8.

The printing of the border design Il is effected subsequently to theprinting of the design Il of the lling or side wall pattern. In thepassage of the web through the printing machine it will be undertsoodthat the web is guided in such fashion that the spaces I thereof will bein alignmentwith the designs II of the border roll, so that thesedesigns will be laid upon the web in the spaces I5 which lie between theimprints I4 of the design of the mung or side wan.' n1 this connectionit will also be noted that the Width of the spaces I5 is slightly lessthan the Width of the border designs II. The purpose of this is toeffect printing of the border designs II in an overlapped relation withreference to the edges of the imprints I4 of the filling or side walldesign, thereby leaving no unprinted portion of the spaces I5, andcovering the edges of the imprints I4 so as to impart a proper union ofthe imprints of the border design with the imprints of the filling orside wall design. The imprints of the border designare designated by thenumeral I9.

From the foregoing it will be apparent that the border design is printedindependently of the printing of the design of the filling or wall butsubsequently thereto. In so imposing the design of the frieze or borderonto the sheet I3 in the Y spaces I5 thereof, the edges of the frieze orborder design will overlap the edges of the filling or wall design. Thisis clearly illustrated in Fig. 5, the dotted lines 20 indicating theunderlying portion of the filling or wall. Thus no unprinted portion ofthe spaces I5 remains but the two designs are solidly united at their'contiguous edges and presenta unitaryarrangement of the two designs.

.the frieze or border that has been cut upon the printing roll I6.

I claim: l

1. As a new article of manufacture, an insert for catalogs or specimenbookscomprising a sheet of wallpaper including the designs of a fillingor wall and the frieze or border printed independently and arranged inoverlapped relation.

2. fAs, a new article of manufacture, an insert forcatalogs or specimenbookscomprising a sheet of wallpaper bearing the designs of a filling orwall and thel frieze or border, the lling lor wall design being'positioned upon the sheet to provide a space atone edge thereof, thefrieze or border design beinglaid upon'the sheet and occupying saidspace, one edge of the frieze or border design lying in overlappedrelation to the contiguous edge of the filling or wall design.

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